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"When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?" — Jane Smiley
"I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time." — Kid Rock
"I'm in an on-off relationship at the moment." — Cat Deeley
"So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it." — Kevin Smith
"Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community." — Rowan Williams
"But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful." — Elizabeth Edwards
"Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature." — Jim Fowler
"I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass." — David Byrne
"A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally." — John Ratzenberger
"Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'" — Graham Norton
"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home." — Gwendolyn Brooks
"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture." — William Glasser
"I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning." — Ben Lovett
"The love of economy is the root of all virtue." — George Bernard Shaw
"I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion." — Alice Walker
"I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business." — Betty White
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." — Albert Einstein
"Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people." — Cuba Gooding, Jr.
"The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with." — Giacomo Casanova
"The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work." — Harlan Coben
"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." — Arthur Ashe
"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future." — Euripides
"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five." — Thomas Carlyle
"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well." — Dan Rather
"It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into." — John McCarthy
"What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men." — Vanessa Marcil
"Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death." — Friedrich Durrenmatt
"The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows." — Josh Gad
"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better." — Ewan McGregor
"What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership." — Bob Iger
"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better." — William Shakespeare
"The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'" — Conan O'Brien
"Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together." — Jacques Maritain
"My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us." — LeAnn Rimes
"I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight." — Leona Lewis
"For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen." — John Dryden
"I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for." — Jon Hamm
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." — Charles de Gaulle
"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow." — Ambrose Bierce
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." — Buddha
"It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?" — Eddie Van Halen
"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love." — George Bernard Shaw
"We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change." — John Sununu
"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success." — Jack Welch
"I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking." — Alex Winter
"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness." — Nick Hornby
"I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth." — Maurice Sendak
"When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age." — Eliza Dushku
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." — Nhat Hanh
"The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength." — Robert Browning
"I don't even own a car." — Bill Nighy
"The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism." — Warren Farrell
"More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse." — Doug Larson
"Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose." — Demi Moore
"Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving." — Dan Millman
"I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me." — Eric Church
"I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write." — John Irving
"Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment." — Lucy Liu
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible." — Deryck Whibley
"Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time." — George S. Patton
"The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides." — Audrey Hepburn
"To me, we're marketing hope." — Joel Osteen
"Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style." — Jurgen Habermas
"When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now." — Adam Ant
"The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become." — Meryl Streep
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life." — Richard Bach
"A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family." — Eric Cantona
"Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly." — Antonio Porchia
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." — Mother Teresa
"So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?" — Paul Ryan
"For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else." — Mitt Romney
"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends." — Pearl S. Buck
"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error." — Rene Descartes
"As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values." — Edward Levi
"It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age." — Amanda Seyfried
"Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'" — Sloane Crosley
"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night." — St. Jerome
"As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived." — Sheryl Swoopes
"You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven." — Charles Simeon
"There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend." — Jack Nicholson
"The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them." — George W. Bush
"Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt." — John Hench
"You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite." — Donna Shalala
"A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra." — Michael Bolton
"African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations." — Mos Def
"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious." — Harriet Ann Jacobs
"I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about." — Justin Timberlake
"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent." — Madonna Ciccone
"Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time." — Yuri Milner
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." — Marilyn Monroe
"Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior." — William Shenstone
"The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal." — Ritchie Blackmore
"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future." — Robert H. Schuller
"I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all." — Anselm Kiefer
"We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be." — Lauren Hutton
"Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America." — David Wilkerson
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature." — Edward Hopper
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." — Paramahansa Yogananda
"I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world." — Judy Collins
"With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose." — David Suzuki
"The federal government... knows how to put a missile in someone's room half way around the world with technology. Why don't we use some of that technology to save some lives here in America?" — Michael Nutter
"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top." — Paul Coffey
"I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning." — Bill Kreutzmann
"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men." — Victor Hugo
"I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror." — Sarah Zettel
"My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults." — Henry Louis Gates
"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little." — Jennifer Garner
"For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity." — Sidney Altman
"I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there." — Christina Aguilera
"Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around." — Reba McEntire
"Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold." — Margaret Fuller
"We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion." — Fred Allen
"To have a great idea, have a lot of them." — Thomas A. Edison
"All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now." — Godfrey Reggio
"Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately." — Blaise Pascal
"The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science." — Samuel Butler
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clarke
"My father was a writer and an acting teacher." — Noah Hathaway
"Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise." — Kathleen Turner
"It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good." — Meg White
"Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it." — Rachel Field
"All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have." — Arthur Scargill
"I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India." — Freida Pinto
"I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me." — Stephen Fry
"Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it." — Beth Ditto
"I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck." — David Edwards
"The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough." — Barbra Streisand
"I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future." — Wilma Mankiller
"Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add." — Nelson Goodman
"We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food." — Paul Prudhomme
"I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful." — Julie Burchill
"Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy." — Jonathan Sacks
"Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other." — Ari Graynor
"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent." — Jonathan Swift
"I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am." — Steve Yzerman
"The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need." — Robertson Davies
"A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways." — Courteney Cox
"Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?" — John James Audubon
"That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables." — Tony Snow
"We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world." — Ed Markey
"Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia." — Michael Mandelbaum
"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly." — Sophocles
"Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!" — Andy Cohen
"Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit." — Paul Twitchell
"Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent." — Aung San Suu Kyi
"I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else." — Henry Rollins
"The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth." — Alan Dershowitz
"If you never change your mind, why have one?" — Edward de Bono
"The only failure is not to try." — George Clooney
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease." — Alexander Pope
"The anger of lovers renews their love." — Terence
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work." — Khalil Gibran
"I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no 'perfect husband.' We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?" — Nick Lachey
"Mark Conseulos is so amazing." — Lily Rabe
"I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before." — Frank Luntz
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation." — Robert Frost
"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them." — Steve Jobs
"I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage." — Halle Berry
"Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences." — Dalai Lama
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view." — Robert M. Hutchins
"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself." — Andre Gide
"People are doing amazing things right now on the Web." — Chris Hughes
"This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline." — Du Fu
"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative." — Alfred Adler
"Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples." — Juan Antonio Samaranch
"For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends." — Aeschylus
"Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads." — Andy Rooney
"From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me." — Ludovico Ariosto
"The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other." — Mark Hopkins
"Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either." — Jon Meacham
"Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth." — Joan of Arc
"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light." — James Russell Lowell
"There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams." — Kenneth H. Cooper
"It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait." — Emily Procter
"Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it." — Germaine Greer
"People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food." — Dorothy Gilman
"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters." — Bill Gates
"When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are." — Anna Kendrick
"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met." — W. Clement Stone
"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal." — John Lennon
"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?" — Desiderius Erasmus
"Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking." — Guy Pearce
"Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before." — Ron Kind
"It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift." — King Abdullah II
"I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school." — Arthur Smith
"Evil gains work their punishment." — Sophocles
"Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love." — Morihei Ueshiba
"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me." — Sarah Bernhardt
"Never complain and never explain." — Benjamin Disraeli
"The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule." — James Bovard
"Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all." — Mandy Patinkin
"I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things." — Katy Perry
"I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way." — George McGovern
"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty." — Mason Cooley
"My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other." — Rick Wakeman
"Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage." — Charlie Chaplin
"Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why." — Henry Van Dyke
"My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating." — Ben Affleck
"I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting." — Andy Rooney
"The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people." — Daniel Radcliffe
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." — Herbert Spencer
"Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice." — Francis Quarles
"Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life." — Michael Morpurgo
"We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it." — Carl T. Rowan
"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way." — Thornton Wilder
"Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior." — Thucydides
"Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind." — Lascelles Abercrombie
"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." — Abraham Lincoln
"I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age." — Janice Dickinson
"So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal." — Clare Short
"There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more." — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them." — George Eliot
"The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth." — Robert Anton Wilson
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time." — Elbert Hubbard
"I went onto reality TV as a business decision." — Bethenny Frankel
"There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened." — Abu Bakr
"Love is friendship set on fire." — Jeremy Taylor
"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself." — Mark Twain
"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit." — Ansel Adams
"I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do." — Heidi Klum
"The only peace is being out of earshot." — Mason Cooley
"I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened." — Jason Ritter
"I don't design clothes, I design dreams." — Ralph Lauren
"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses." — Ellen Key
"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains." — Ursula K. Le Guin
"For me the visual is just as important as the music." — Christina Aguilera
"The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness." — Harry Harrison
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." — Robert Orben
"People feel politics isn't about their lives." — David Miliband
"Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school." — Evan Sayet
"I've always had an interest in sports across the board." — Gabrielle Union
"According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen." — Luis Gutierrez
"You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing." — Orison Swett Marden
"These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms." — Mick Taylor
"I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails." — Hedy Lamarr
"Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business." — Jack Welch
"A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality." — Milan Kundera
"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life." — Jean Ingelow
"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear." — Brian Tracy
"There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it." — Michael Bay
"Music can change the world because it can change people." — Bono
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." — Marlene Dietrich
"Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality." — Friedrich Durrenmatt
"Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'" — Daniel Dennett
"Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding." — Gloria Estefan
"Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day." — Barbara de Angelis
"There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment." — Shakti Gawain
"I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it." — Tony Williams
"As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger." — Eliot Spitzer
"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary." — David Bailey
"I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful." — Sarah Jessica Parker
"I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works." — Tiffeny Milbrett
"Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace." — Cecilia Bartoli
"Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups." — Paul Ryan
"I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves." — Taylor Momsen
"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want." — C. Northcote Parkinson
"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly." — Peter De Vries
"Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives." — Ivo Andric
"English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously." — Vivien Leigh
"God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another." — Mike Tyson
"I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters." — Michael Sheen
"'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies." — Rob Sheffield
"My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success." — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
"Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself." — Walter Gilbert
"Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss." — Paul Davies
"Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens." — Samuel Gompers
"It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!" — Josh Hopkins
"Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies." — Sandra Bullock
"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry." — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude." — V. S. Naipaul
"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage." — Benjamin Franklin
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." — Rogers Hornsby
"I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there." — George J. Mitchell
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." — e. e. cummings
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past." — Robertson Davies
"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes." — Oscar Wilde
"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle." — William Osler
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." — Socrates
"Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon." — Ron Paul
"I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world." — Diane Kruger
"Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage." — Iain Duncan Smith
"Touch a scientist and you touch a child." — Ray Bradbury
"They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on." — Christopher Walken
"People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy." — Rene Redzepi
"We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century." — Bjorn Lomborg
"Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely." — P. J. O'Rourke
"True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty." — Eric Liu
"So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output." — Talib Kweli
"It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat." — Avril Lavigne
"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers." — Carol Burnett
"If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them." — Luciano Pavarotti
"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." — Alexander Pope
"Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment." — Susan Wojcicki
"I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it." — Justin Bieber
"I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work." — Sheena Easton
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." — Johann Sebastian Bach
"Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house." — Brett Ratner
"Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s." — Camille Paglia
"Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of." — Tia Carrere
"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom." — Jean Giraudoux
"There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it." — Will Durst
"I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!" — Jerry O'Connell